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Papers

(The median citation count of R & D Management is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Temporary business model innovation – SMEs’ innovation response to the Covid‐19 crisis	113
Technological exaptation and crisis management: Evidence from COVID‐19 outbreaks	99
Frugal innovation in a crisis: the digital fabrication maker response to COVID‐19	84
How can crowdsourcing help tackle the COVID‐19 pandemic? An explorative overview of innovative collaborative practices	83
Open innovation in the face of the COVID‐19 grand challenge: insights from the Pan‐European hackathon ‘EUvsVirus’	82
Digital transformation, for better or worse: a critical multi‐level research agenda	80
Exogenous shocks and the adaptive capacity of family firms: exploring behavioral changes and digital technologies in the COVID‐19 pandemic	61
Accelerated innovation through repurposing: exaptation of design and manufacturing in response to COVID‐19	48
Innovation in times of pandemic: The moderating effect of knowledge sharing on the relationship between COVID‐19‐induced job stress and employee innovation	44
Innovation management in crisis: patent analytics as a response to the COVID‐19 pandemic	43
The top‐down pattern of social innovation and social entrepreneurship. Bricolage and agility in response to COVID‐19: cases from China	37
The spatiotemporal evolution of global innovation networks and the changing position of China: a social network analysis based on cooperative patents	37
Ecosystem effectuation: creating new value through open innovation during a pandemic	37
The impact of Covid‐19 on innovation policies promoting Open Innovation	35
How to save the world during a pandemic event. A case study of frugal innovation	32
How can open innovation support SMEs in the adoption of I4.0 technologies? An empirical analysis	30
Maneuvering the bumps in the New Silk Road: Open innovation, technological complexity, dominant design, and the international impact of Chinese innovation	28
Resource orchestration for team‐based innovation: a case study of the interplay between teams, customers, and top management	27
Innovating and transforming during COVID‐19: insights from Italian firms	27
The contribution of Design Thinking to the R of R&D in technological innovation	25
Theorizing business model innovation: an organizing framework of research dimensions and future perspectives	25
Two archetypes of business model innovation processes for manufacturing firms in the context of digital transformation	24
Evaluating internal and external knowledge sources in firm innovation and productivity: an industry perspective	24
Unveiling the role of risk‐taking in innovation: antecedents and effects	23
Negative performance feedback, CEO tenure, and punctuated equilibrium innovation	21

On the soft side of open innovation: the role of human resource practices, organizational learning culture and knowledge sharing	19
Innovating the product innovation process to enable co‐creation	18
Open Covid‐19: Organizing an extreme crowdsourcing campaign to tackle grand challenges	18
R&D Management at a time of crisis: what are we learning from the response to the COVID‐19 pandemic?	17
The quadruple/quintuple helix model in entrepreneurial ecosystems: an institutional perspective on the space case study	16
Maker movement contribution to fighting COVID‐19 pandemic: insights from Tunisian FabLabs	16
Entrepreneurial alertness and business model innovation in dynamic markets: international performance implications for SMEs	16
Being resilient for society: evidence from companies that leveraged their resources and capabilities to fight the COVID‐19 crisis	16
Entrepreneurial behavior and firm performance: The mediating role of business model novelty	16
How firms use inbound Open Innovation practices over time: evidence from an exploratory multiple case study analysis	16
Decoding China’s COVID‐19 ‘virus exceptionalism’: Community‐based digital contact tracing in Wuhan	15
Open innovation for institutional entrepreneurship: how incumbents induce institutional change to advance autonomous driving	15
Certification effect of R&D subsidies on debt financing: do institutional forces matter?	15
Servitization in global markets: role alignment in global service networks for advanced service provision	15
The microfoundations of open innovation: CEO overconfidence and innovation choices	15
Science parks as key players in entrepreneurial ecosystems	14
The innovation antecedents behind the servitization–performance relationship	14
Disruption by design? Classification framework for the archetypes of disruptive business models	14
Crisis‐driven innovation of products new to firms: the sensitization response to COVID‐19	14
Innovation search: the role of innovation intermediaries in the search process	14
Empowering patients to co‐design Covid‐19 responses: the role of online health communities	14
Governance mechanisms implementation in the evolution of digital platforms: a case study of the Internet of Things platform	14
Open innovation ecosystem organizing from a process view: a longitudinal study in the making of an innovation hub	14
The effects of entrepreneurial ecosystems, knowledge management capabilities, and knowledge spillovers on international open innovation	13
COVID‐19 firms’ fast innovation reaction analyzed through dynamic capabilities	13
Repurposing without purpose? Early innovation responses to the COVID‐19 crisis: Evidence from clinical trials	13
The fit between firm capability and business model for SME growth: a resource orchestration perspective	12
The two sides of the coin: joint project leader interaction in university‐industry collaboration projects	12
Partner technological heterogeneity and innovation performance of R&D alliances	12
Repeated partnerships in university‐industry collaboration portfolios and firm innovation performance: roles of absorptive capacity and political connections	12
Recycling in entrepreneurial ecosystems: the phenomenon of boomeranging	11
R&D subsidies, novelty of firm innovation and industrial technological complexity: the knowledge recombinant view	11
Introduction to the Special Issue on the New Silk Road of Innovation: R&D Networks, Knowledge Diffusions, and Open Innovation	11
The fast response of academic spinoffs to unexpected societal and economic challenges. Lessons from the COVID‐19 pandemic crisis	11
The dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems: an empirical investigation	11
50+ years of R&D Management: a retrospective synthesis and new research trajectories	11
Incorporating non‐academics in academic spin‐off entrepreneurial teams: the vertical diversity that can make the difference	10
When nothing is certain, anything is possible: open innovation and lean approach at MVM	10
Thematic evolution, emerging trends for sharing economy business model research, and future research directions in the post‐COVID‐19 era	10
The role of cross‐sector partnerships in the dynamics between places and innovation ecosystems	9
Bottom‐up solutions in a time of crisis: the case of Covid‐19 in South Korea	9
Design principles of hybrid approaches in new product development: a systematic literature review	9
Managing exploration persistency in ambidextrous organizations	9
From laboratory to clinic: science commercialization within university‐centered entrepreneurial ecosystems	9
The role of entrepreneurial ecosystems in technological and social challenges	9
Exploring the Open COVID Pledge in the fight against COVID‐19: a semantic analysis of the Manifesto, the pledgors and the featured patents	8
The performance implications of patenting – the moderating effect of informal institutions in emerging economies	7
Nonlinear spatial innovation spillovers and regional open innovation: evidence from China	7
A digital ecosystem as an institutional field: curated peer production as a response to institutional voids revealed by COVID‐19	7
Fostering digital literacy among small and micro‐enterprises: digital transformation as an open and guided innovation process	7

International R&D partnerships: the role of government funding in reducing transaction costs and opportunistic behavior	6
How “Belt and Road” initiative implementation has influenced R&D outcomes of Chinese enterprises: asset‐exploitation or knowledge transfer?	6
The effects of SMEs' R&D team diversity on project‐level performances: evidence from South Korea's R&D subsidy program	6
Rapid setup and management of medical device design and manufacturing consortia: experiences from the COVID‐19 crisis in the UK	6
Start‐ups' use of knowledge spillovers for product innovation: the influence of entrepreneurial ecosystems and virtual platforms	6
Can entrepreneurial orientation improve R&D alliance performance? An absorptive capacity perspective	6
R&D management at a time of crisis: what are we learning from the initial response to the COVID‐19 pandemic?	6
Managing business model innovation uncertainties in 5G technology: a future‐oriented sensemaking perspective	6
The impact of the timing of patent allowance on technology licensing performance: evidence from university invention commercialization	5
R&D employee tenure in MNC subsidiaries: the role of institutional distance and experience	5
Exploring the dynamics of openness and formal appropriability and its impact on innovation performance in start‐ups	5
Blind faith or hard evidence? Exploring the indirect performance impact of design thinking practices in R&D	5
The effects of crowdsourcing contribution type and temporal consistency on new product development success	5
Commonalities and specificities of dynamic capabilities: a mixed methods study of UK high‐tech SMEs	5
The impact of corporate science on environmental innovations: the role of universities and research institutions	5
Impact of workspace environment on creativity and innovation: empirical evidence from a makerspace in China	5
Market dominance, R&D grant funding, and innovation outcomes	5
Determinants of competitive advantage: The roles of innovation orientation, fuzzy front end, and internal competition	5
How does information technology capabilities affect business sustainability? The roles of ambidextrous innovation and data‐driven culture	5
What’s the problem? How crowdsourcing and text‐mining may contribute to the understanding of unprecedented problems such as COVID‐19	5
Dancing with wolves: how R&D human capital can benefit from coopetition	5
Science‐based innovation via university spin‐offs: the influence of intangible assets	4
It's all about opportunities: sourcing and selection of new ventures to accelerate innovation	4
Examining the micro‐level challenges experienced by publicly funded university principal investigators	4
R&D employee training, the stock of technological knowledge, and R&D productivity	4
Key aspects of establishing research, knowledge, and innovation‐based hubs as part of the local innovation ecosystem	4
Government sponsorship and innovation: the Gazelle Plan in China's Zhongguancun Science Park	4
Assessing the impact of stakeholder pressure and green data analytics on firm's environmental performance – understanding the role of green knowledge management and green technological innovativeness	4
The role of patent expiration in acquisition decision and target selection in the pharmaceutical industry	4
Managers' compassionate goals, innovation, and firm performance: an examination of mediating processes, and boundary conditions in small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises	4
Disrupt through digital: a study on the challenges faced when digitalizing R&D	4
Emergence of communities through interdependent dynamics of physical, cognitive and virtual contexts: the case of collaborative spaces	4
Intellectual capital and R&D performance improvement: the case of Italian public universities	4
R&D subsidies, internet penetration and global value chain position	4
Multi‐mode standardization under extreme time‐pressure – the case of COVID‐19 contact‐tracing apps	4
Ambidexterity within a multinational context: how organisations can leverage explorative and exploitative reverse innovation	4
Gender, occupational diversity of R&D teams and patents generation: an application to Spanish firms	4
The downsides of specialization: the impact of business incubator's specialization on startups' R&D efficiency and venture capital financing	3
When is R&D beneficial for family firms? The concurrent roles of CSR and economic conditions	3
The role of makerspaces in innovation processes: an exploratory study	3
Entrepreneurial new service development strategies: identifying critical success factors	3
Bright and dark sides of adopting a platform‐based sharing economy business model	3
Virtual collaborative spaces: a case study on the antecedents of collaboration in an open‐source software community	3
Pursuing opportunities in distance: the determinants of overseas R&D by Chinese multinationals	3
Boundary organisations in regional innovation systems: traversing knowledge boundaries for industry 4.0 regional transformations	3
Places and spaces of collaborative R&D and innovation: navigating the role of physical and virtual contexts	3
The conflict between existing and new business models: The effect of resource redeployment on incumbent performance	3
Governance choice misfit and firm performance in offshoring innovation: the role of institutional environment	3
Does geographic distance benefit or harm cooperative NPD creativity? A contingency model	3
Design thinking and dynamic managerial capabilities: a quasi‐experimental field study in the aviation industry	3
How does the space influence Living Labs? Evidence from two automotive experiences	3
The role of status diversity in the innovative performance of R&D teams	3
Effect of agglomeration on firms’ research and development investment: a U‐shaped relationship	3
A generative design of collaborative innovation space	3
R&D employment effects of financial slack generated by R&D tax exemption: The importance of firm‐level contingencies	3
Inclusion of elderly users via virtual spaces in the early stages of the innovation process	3
A threshold for collaborative innovation: exploring the dimensions of liminality in a data economy initiative	2
Intellectual capital‐driven innovation: the influence of servitization degree	2
Knowing too much? On bias due to domain‐specific knowledge in internal crowdsourcing for explorative ideas	2
How sustainable is the sharing business model? Toward a conceptual framework	2
Toward a sustainable sharing economy with business model innovations in the clothing industry	2
Environmental scanning, resource orchestration, and disruptive innovation	2
Characteristics and factors for the innovation performance of New R&D Institutes at start‐up stages: an exploratory study from China	2
The effect of top‐down knowledge hiding on subordinates' task performance in Chinese R&D projects: the mediating role of leader‐member ‘guanxi’	2
To join or not to join? Insights from coopetitive RD&I projects	2
The role of top management meetings in enhancing product innovation and performance	2
From depth and breadth of knowledge to technological capability: a journey inside a firm's intellectual capital	2
The effects of family involvement on proactive R&D management capability: detrimental or beneficial?	2
Adaptability among inbound tour operators in a disrupted business environment	2
Toolkits for innovation: how digital technologies empower users in new product development	2
Political behavior in collaborative innovation spaces: outlining triggers, behaviors and shaping mechanisms	2
Effects of prior knowledge and collaborations on R&D performance in times of urgency: the case of COVID‐19 vaccine development	2
Grand challenges, corporate legitimacy, and community integration: an integrative smart technology model	2
The interplay between the contextual conditions and the advancement of the technological maturity in inter‐organisational collaborative R&D projects: a qualitative study	2
Creative ambivalence: implementing need‐solution pairs in household 3D printing	2